In the late 20th century, the processing of by-products from the Lacq natural gas field near Pau became important, although Bayonne has had higher-than-average unemployment.

In Bayonne much of the bay has not seen bulkhead development, and hence has a natural shore line.

It's 1987 in Bayonne, New Jersey and Debby Miller has just been diagnosed with a condition called hysterical blindness in which there are moments when her sight fades in and out.

The NJSEA also operates the Off Track Wagering ( OTW ) facility, Favorites at Woodbridge, and has received approval to open a second OTW in Bayonne.

Solaris has sold diesel and CNG-powered buses to numerous countries in Europe, including Italy ( Pescara and Rome ), France ( Paris, Bayonne and Narbonne ), Denmark, Germany ( Berlin, Bochum, Braunschweig, Bremen, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Fulda, Frankfurt am Main, Hannover, Hamburg, Kassel, Koblenz, Leipzig, Magdeburg, München, Nürnberg, Potsdam, Reutlingen, Schweinfurt, Schwäbisch Hall, Weimar and more ), Hungary in Nyíregyháza, Latvia ( Riga and Daugavpils ), Poland ( Warsaw, Szczecin, Lublin, Łódź, Gdynia, Radom, Rzeszów, Poznań, Katowice, Kraków, Tychy and Częstochowa ), Romania in Oradea and most recently Greece ( Athens ), Norway ( Oslo and Trondheim ), United Arab Emirates ( Dubai ), Sweden ( Gothenburg ) and Serbia ( Novi Sad ).

A Staten Island light rail system connecting to the Hudson – Bergen Light Rail over the Bayonne Bridge has also been proposed.

Under current rules the Academy has 24 full members and an unlimited number of associate members. The Academy is present throughout the area where Basque is used, with a head office in Bilbao and regional offices in Bayonne ( Baiona ), Donostia-San Sebastián, Iruñea-Pamplona and Vitoria-Gasteiz.

* The Bayonne Bridge is the fourth longest steel arch bridge in the world

It was the world's longest steel arch bridge until the Bayonne Bridge was opened in 1931, and was surpassed again by the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1932.

Bayonne (; Gascon and ) is a city and commune in south-western France at the confluence of the Nive and Adour rivers, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, of which it is a sub-prefecture.

France also boasts a number of seaports and harbours, including Bayonne, Bordeaux, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Brest, Calais, Cherbourg-Octeville, Dunkerque, Fos-sur-Mer, La Pallice, Le Havre, Lorient, Marseille, Nantes, Nice, Paris, Port-la-Nouvelle, Port-Vendres, Roscoff, Rouen, Saint-Nazaire, Saint-Malo, Sète, Strasbourg and Toulon.

Bastiat was born in Bayonne, Aquitaine, a port town in the south of France on the Bay of Biscay, on 30 June 1801.

Bayonne Ham or Bayonne is an air dried salted ham that takes its name from the ancient port city of Bayonne in the far South West of France ( Le Pays Basque or Basque country ).

The effort failed, and with the Treaty of Bruges in 1375, the great English possessions in France were reduced to only the coastal towns of Calais, Bordeaux, and Bayonne.

* France: Brest, Nantes, La Rochelle, Bordeaux, Bayonne, Biarritz.

There is a legend that during the mid-17th century irregular military conflicts of rural France, the peasants of the Southern French town of Bayonne, having run out of powder and shot, rammed their long-bladed hunting knives into the muzzles of their primitive muskets to fashion impromptu spears and, by necessity, created an ancillary weapon.

Sixteen other parades take place at cities throughout France in: Angers, Biarritz, Bayonne, Bordeaux, Caen, Le Mans, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Nancy, Nantes, Paris, Rennes, Rouen, Strassbourg, Toulouse and Tours.

Under Louis XIII of France the conversos of Bayonne were assigned to the suburb of St. Esprit.

Born in Ezpeleta near Bayonne, in the north of Basque Country, in Pyrénées-Atlantiques département of France, he entered the Congregation of the Mission in 1848, having already displayed great fondness for the natural sciences.

René Samuel Cassin ( born 5 October 1887 in Bayonne, France – died 20 February 1976 in Paris, France ) was a French jurist, law professor and judge.

He was born in Bayonne, France, where his father, Dominique Cabarrus Fourcade was a merchant and shipbuilder, linked to a saga of Basque sea-captains, whalers and adventurers, who settled in Capbreton ( a town near Bayonne ), coming from the Navarre region of Spain.

The ship arrived at Le Passage, in Spain, and the prisoners were transferred to Bayonne, France.

To make matters worse, in 1808 the French Empire imposed on the duchy an agreement at Bayonne to buy from France the debts owed to it by Prussia.

She died on July 18, 1936, in Bayonne, France.

Born in Bayonne, France, Mr. Camdessus was educated at the University of Paris and earned postgraduate degrees in economics at Institut d ' Etudes Politiques de Paris ( Sciences Po ) in Paris and the École nationale d ' administration.

Didier Claude Deschamps ( ; born 15 October 1968 in Bayonne ) is a retired French footballer and current manager of France.

* Jambon de Bayonne ( Bayonne Ham ), a dry-cured ham made in France

Sousa Mendes continued on to Hendaye to assist there, thus narrowly missing two cablegrams from Lisbon sent June 22 to Bordeaux and Bayonne ordering him to stop even as France's armistice with Germany became official.

In the meantime, there was one more pointless bloodletting at the Battle of Bayonne, caused by the French commander Thouvenot's refusal to accept that the war was lost with the abdication of Napoleon.

The New York dialect is closely confined to the geographically small but densely populated New York City dialect region, which consists of the city's five Boroughs, Western Long Island although the border there is not clearly established, the lower Hudson Valley, and several nearby cities in northeastern New Jersey, e. g., Weehawken, Hoboken, Jersey City, Bayonne, and Newark.

When, in 1808, the Empress Josephine went to Bayonne to rejoin Napoleon I, who resided there by reason of the affairs of Spain, the municipality sent an escort of young Landese stilt walkers to meet her.

The company was founded in Bayonne, New Jersey, and although no manufacturing facilities remain in Bayonne today, some company facilities are still located there.

Today there are still a few Spanish and Portuguese communities in Bordeaux and Bayonne, and one in Paris, but in all these communities ( and still more among French Jews generally ) any surviving Spanish and Portuguese Jews are greatly outnumbered by Jews of North African origin.

He attended technical schools there, and began work as a bricklayer with the Standard Oil Company in Bayonne, New Jersey.

It is said he ruled " from Belorado to Pallars and from Bayonne to Monreal.

Jewish refugees from the Spanish Inquisition from 1560 brought new trades, most notably chocolate-making, which is still important in Bayonne.

Bayonne is now part of ' BAB ' ( Bayonne-Anglet-Biarritz ), a metropolitan area of almost 200, 000 people.

Grand Bayonne is the commercial and civic hub, with small pedestrianised streets packed with shops, plus the cathedral and Hôtel de Ville.

At the back of Petit Bayonne is the Château Neuf, among the ramparts.

Bull-fighting is part of the five-day Fêtes de Bayonne which starts on the first Wednesday of August and attracts people from across the Basque Country and beyond.

Bayonne is known for its fine chocolates, produced in the town for 500 years, and Bayonne ham, a cured ham seasoned with peppers from nearby Espelette.

It is said by some that Bayonne is the birthplace of mayonnaise, supposedly a corruption of Bayonnaise, the French adjective describing the city's people and produce.

Bayonne is now the centre of certain craft industries that were once widespread, including the manufacture of makilas, traditional Basque walking-sticks.

The Gare de Bayonne is on the high-speed TGV line between Paris and Hendaye for connections with Spain.

The city is near the intersection between the A63 autoroute between Bordeaux and the Spanish border and the A64 from Bayonne to Toulouse.

The city bus system is STAB ( Transports Urbains de l ' agglomération de Bayonne ).

Bayonne harbour is a stop over for yachts and boats crossing the Gulf of Biscay on their way from the UK to the Iberian Peninsula, the Atlantic or the Mediterranean.

The Mayor of Bayonne ( 1995 – 2007 ) is Jean Grenet of the centre-right UMP.

In Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt ( 2002 ), Bayonne is the first city recolonized by the Muslims after the total depopulation of Europe by the Black Death.

The seventh track of Joe Bonamassa's album Dust Bowl is entitled The Last Matador of Bayonne.

In Earnest J. Gaines ' novel, " A Lesson Before Dying " Bayonne, Louisiana is the name of a Cajun town central to the book.